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A successful Shakespearian actor on Broadway, William S. Hart went on to become one of the first great stars of the motion picture Western. Hart appeared in director Sidney Olcott's 1907 production of Ben-Hur for which he received good recognition and more parts in short films until 1914 when he starred in his first feature, The Bargain . In 1917, he accepted a lucrative offer from Adolph Zukor to join Famous Players-Laskey. He made his last film in 1925 for United Artists and retired to a ranch in Newhall, California.

On his passing in 1946, William S. Hart was buried in Green-Wood CemeteryChapel in Green-Wood Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, several blocks east of Prospect Park. In the New York Times it was said to be the "ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take hi in Brooklyn, New York.

As part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, CaliforniaLos Angeles County is a county with 9,802,800 residents ( as of 2001), the most populous county in California and in the entire United States. The county seat is the city of Los Angeles. The county is home to 88 incorporated cities and many unincorporated, Hart's former home and 260 acre ranch on Sunset BoulevardSunset Boulevard is a street in the western part of Los Angeles County, California, that stretches from Downtown Los Angeles to Pacific Coast Highway at the Pacific Ocean between Santa Monica and Malibu. Approximately twenty-two miles in length, the famou in Newhall is now "William S. Hart Park." As well, the William S. Hart Union High School District located in the Santa Clarita Valley in the northern part of Los Angeles County was named in his honor.